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I posted regarding the demise of the a30 the other week and I noticed today road markings the reason for which I cannot comprehend. A couple of feet from the curb on both sides of the single carriageway road have been hatched out effectively narrowing the road and making oncoming vehicles nearer to each other. Any shed any light or have similar mysterious road markings?
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As hatching should be treated as if it were raised surface, it'll possibly be an advance notice, that the road narrows ahead & this makes it less sudden.
Alternativly, it's been done to straighten the road & slow the traffic naturally, without applying a a new limit.
VB
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It's used as "traffic calmimg" to make drivers go slower because the road appears narrower.
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Are you sure it isn't something to do with overhanging trees, lamp posts etc. and tall vehicles? I know a lot of places like that. The temptation not to drive straight over the hatching is strong, but eventually one learns to resist it in one's small, low vehicle...
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Our LA have been hypnotised into thinking that this will help reduce casualties, no good for motorcylists though, they'll be forced onto the crown of the road and take their chances with oncoming myopaths or ride in the hatched areas where all the broken glass and bits of metal designed to puncture tyres lurk. To revert to a Bushism these lines to be oblitarateified.
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In a few places round here, where's a two-lane slip-road off the dual carrigeway leading to a roundabout, they've put hatching in the inside lane to push everyone into the outside lane but only for a few yards. Then the hatching ends and you can go back in the left-hand lane.
Anyone who takes any notice causes havoc.
It's the road authorities' way of teaching us not pay too much attention to all those white lines they paint on the road. Probably the work of a man at the council who never got his driving licence. Just his little joke.
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It's the latest left-wing fad. The A614 in Nottingham was done a few years ago. It is supposed to discourage overtaking by making the road too narrow. The number of accidents increased by a lot, but they refused to remove them.
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